to get together with your friends and talk about something that's important, talk about the way marshall gans does, tell your -- you know, promote the idea of the story of me, telling your story first, and that opens people up just like it does when you, you know, go out for pizza with friends and talk about what's happened and what's going on with you. sharing your personal stories binds people together, and that there is -- you know, there are very specific ways where you can start a group just amongst your friends, a handful of friends. find out what you share in common, find out what you care about and then plot the strategy for how you will hold each other accountable and continue on in your group to focus on an issue that you share and make, you know, small and big changes. attend meetings together, go to protests, make town phone calls -- make phone calls, bother your representative. but find a sort of social pod and take it out there together. >> i would offer up listening too in addition to that. so many, i would say so many movements could be more unified if people just listened to